I’ve Been Selected To Move Money Out Of Iraq

I have absolutely the best luck in the whole world. Not too long ago, I was sent an email from Peter Boltton. He claimed that his boss died in a terrible plane crash and he needed help getting the money that his boss left behind. He wanted to list me as his next of kin and I could share in all the money that he would get. I chose not to get involved because it WAS OBVIOUSLY FRAUDULENT.

Well, I’ve received another letter. Here is what I was sent:

Dear,I am Major Ralph Harland, a British officer attached to UN peace Keeping force in Iraq, I am the commanding officer of First Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment.We managed to Move funds belonging to some demised persons who were attacked and killed through insurgent attacks. The total amount is US$9.5 Million dollars in cash. We want to move this money to you, so that you may keep our share for us until when we shall come over to meet you. We will take 60%, my partner and I. You take 40%. No strings attached, just help us move it out of Iraq, Iraq is a war zone.We plan on using Diplomatic courier to ship the money out, using diplomatic immunity. If you are interested I will send you the full details; my aim is to find a good partner that can be trusted. Kindly send me an e-mail here ralphharland@*removed-so-no-one-is-tempted.com* signifying your interest and your full contact details. This business is 100% risk free. Respectfully, Major Ralph Harland.

Let’s take a quick look at this email. For starters he addressed it to “Dear,” Apparently the mail merges they use down in Nigeria, or wherever this particular scammer lives, is on the fritz. My name wasn’t even on the letter. Pretty sloppy for a supposed Major in the British military.

Secondly, my wife is British and almost every one of my inlaws lives in Britain and I’ve never heard them use the phrase, “…so that you may keep our share for us until when we shall come over to meet you”. Sounds like a translation problem to me. Just one more sign that this is a scam. I suppose it doesn’t matter if they slip up a few times when they send these out. I’m sure there will be at least one person that reads it and gets that little bit of hope that it’s true. That’s all it takes for them to send their information to this scammer so that the fraud can really start happening.

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Comments

Funny response to this: A friend of mine recently received a very similar email. He decided to respond to it for fun; but in his response, he acted as though he didn’t understand the whole process. Long story short, he ended up trading emails (always making sure his response sounded like he was interested, but never including any vital financial information) back and worth with the scammer. With each response from the scammer, the scammer tried to explain the process over and over, getting more and more frustrated with each email until they finally email “Just forgot it!”

I can just image their excitement of hooking someone, and then their frustration in trying to explain the process over and over!

Moneymonk,
I hear that there are a lot of people doing this. It really does probably help. The more time of theirs that everyone wastes by stringing them along, the less damage they can do to the suckers that fall for these.